Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-06-18
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
The German bark Elsa was found in the
English channel creWleee and badly disabled.
Z Is supposed she had been damaged by q
collision. The fate of the crew has not
txanspired.
The EnQlieh steamship Castleford went
ashore in a fog OF the Scilly islands, and it
is believed will prove wreck.
The earl of Wincbeleea and Nottingham
dead at the age of ~.
The next convention of the American
Bankers association will be held at Pitts
burg on October u 81 Ii.
"One death from yellow fever and no new
cases" Gays the bulletin from Key West.
The Saginaw consolidation bill has passed
both houses Of the Michigan legislature.
The senate parsed the university appropria-
lion bin over the governors veto, aud killed
the graded railroad fare bill The appropr1-
atoms will exec ed those of the last session
by about $500, 000.
Ex-Semeta,y Chandler has been nomi-
mated for the short term Of senatorFhip by
the republican legislative caucus at Concord,
New Hampshire.
The French and Russian ambassadors at
Constantinople have objected in behalf of
their governments to the ratification by the
porte of the Anglo Turkish convention re-
hitting to Egypt. M. Nelidoff, the French
representative, told the spltan it might cost
him his throne If he concluded the treaty,
and charged the English government with
bribing the grand vizier and other high
<Hl sn1n obi vh
denied by those implicated, will create a
profound sensation in diplomatic circles.
At Mount, Dakota, Norwegian woman
named Bakken and her two little children
persisted in their burning cabin.
Lyman J. Gage, vice president of the
First National bank of Chicago, was mar
RED at Denver, to Mrs. Cornelia M. Gage.
widow of the groom's brother.
The annual report of the Pennsylvania
company operating the Fort Wayne, Pan
Handle, and other lines of the Pennsylvania
eystem west of Pittsburg shows an increase
of revenue for 1885 over the preceding year
of $3,263, 332. %.
The death of Judge William Murray, OF
the supre me bench of New York, and e1-
Governor Chaunoey F. Cleveland, OF Con-
necticut, are announced.
The pere nnisl fishery dispute with Canada
has broken out IN new place. Six boats
with four tons of fsh caught in Georgian
bay, and consigned to q Detroit firm, have
been seized by the Canadian customs in
pector at Victoria harbor, and the con-
mgnees will appeal to the Dominion govern:
ment for reoJe falling in which they Will
seek relief in the courts. They claim that
all the requirements of Canadian law had
been fulfilled.
A great comnotion has been produced in
Wall street circles by the new issue of Mil
waukee and St. Paul stock. The sale Of the
Chicago ana Evanston railroad to the st.
Paul company for $1,000, 600 has been con-
summated. The vice president of the st.
Paul, in a letter to the Merchants associa-
tion of Milwaukee, ssys the presidency of
the road would be rendered to Mr.. John
he were able to devote his entire time to the
duties of the Office.
a revenue steamer has been dispatched
from San Francisco to OoDalaska and the
Seal islands for the protec tion of the seal
fisheries.
About ST., OC0 900 of the called per cents
are still held by the national banks.
The rival labor organizations in New York
are fighting each other with as much vigor
as they have ever shown in their warfare
condemned the executive committee of the
Knights of Labor for declaring boycott
against we'll known carpet firm which, it
is ssse rted, employs only union workmeu
and pays the chest wages in the trade.
This boycott has created q great stir in labor
cirolee, and threatens to make big breach
in the Powderly society.
Representative Irishmen of New York in
dorse Mr.. O'Brien's refusal to participate |
in the recent McGlynn George demonstra-
ton.
A monument to the Irish soldiers who fell
In the recent battle of Dogali, Abyssinia,
has been unveiled at Rome in the presence
Vt the king and queen and vast multitude.
Great damage was done by the recent
storms in Hungary and southwestern Ger
many.
Cleo and Claudia Thorne, of Cleveland,
O., sisters, were drowned in creek near
Macon, Ga. They went of to battle. They
got into deeper water than they expected to
find. and drowned before assistance could
reach Them;
Thirty Indians are nov said to be on the
var path, instead of seventeen, as first re-
ported. Delhi, their first victim, was q
apion veteran. It is feared that two white
men who were working at Table mountain,
ON the Oak grove trail, near Benson, Ari-
IONA, have become victims.
William e. Chandler will probably receive
the republican caucus nomination for the
United States senatorship from New Hamp-
shire, but there is q strong prospect of his
defeat by q combination of some of the re-
publican legislators with the democrats. If
the combination is effected, two senators
will probably be elected by sthe present
legislature-o1e to serve out the unexpired
term of the late Senator Pike, and one to |
succeed Mr.. Blair, whose term runs t.
March 4, 1889.
Two former ambassadors at Berlin have |
been dismissed from the diplomatic service |
Of Russia for the publication of &c cret official
documents, and Editor Katkoff, of The |
Aoscoso Gasette, is said to have been |
reprimanded for printing them ir b paper |
Charles Spencer, formerly Chicago real
estate dealer, has been indicted at Pierre, |
Dakota, for stealing. BE is one of |
the prominent men Of the territory.
One section Of the French party Of the |
l0ft hes adopted the prorOeitiOn for the |